He is best known for his work on Namco games, including multiple Ridge Racer and Klonoa titles, as well as Ace Combat 2 and the console version of Tekken 5.
[2][3] Takahashi wanted the music to be "stimulating" and intense to convey a sense of anxiety, while making sure it had a distinct flare.
In 1998, he composed for R4: Ridge Racer Type 4, which he found difficult due to his relative unfamiliarity with dance-oriented genres, which were outside his musical tastes at the time.
Aiming to take the game's music in a different direction from previous games, he brought in Japanese electronic music duo Boom Boom Satellites, Takeshi Ueda and German DJ Mijk van Dijk as contributors, along with Namco composers Nobuyoshi Sano, Yuu Miyake, and Yoshinori Kawamoto; the former two worked in Namco's arcade division at the time.
He also worked as a journalist writing about sampling CDs and software for Sound & Recording Magazine, and also co-produced and mixed several releases by electronic musician Hiroshi Fujiwara.
In 2010, he formed a unit with Kenji Ito named RESONATOR, working on DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu Arrange Album as well as the soundtrack for the game Bullet Soul.
[7] Since the 2010s, Takahashi has published various solo albums of original music, including Core and Everyone, both consisting of tracks he composed in the early 2000s.
[9] This led to the release of another Ridge Racer-inspired album in 2023, titled Reiwa Type V. He also uses Patreon to share work-in-progress and unreleased tracks.